Cuff-holder



(No Model.)

E'. A. ROBBINS. CUFF HOLDER.

NO. 250,170. Patented Nov. 29,188L

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN A. ROBBINS, OF BOSTON, llIASSAOHUSETTS.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,170, dated November 29, 1881.

' Application filed May 26, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN A. ROBBINS, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cuff-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, simple, and convenient device for temporarily attaching, securing, and holding cuffs to the bindings or cuffs of shirt-sleeves, so as to permit the same to be adjusted as desired, to show more or less, when in use, below or beyond the end of the coat'sleeves, and also permit the said cufl's to be reversed and instantly adjusted, or be removed therefrom when soiled or at any time when not desired; and it consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the pivoted clamping device or cam with the bent, flat, sheetmetal, doublespring body portion provided with clips or cars and an opening, into and through which the said pivoted lever-cam operates, as hereinafter more fully described and set forth.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a cuff-holder constructed according to myinvention. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal central section of the same when in use.

A represents a separate or false shirt-cull, so called; and B represents a shirt wristband or cuff attached permanently to the sleeve of the shirt.

G represents a cuff-h older, consisting of a flat sheet-metal body portion, one end of which is extended and bent into a bow-spring, D, leaving the free end E rest-ing upon said body portion 0, so as to form a spring-clamp for holding the cufi'A when inserted between the said free end E and body portion 0, which are of such length as to permit the cuff A to be adjusted therein longitudinally, as desired. The opposite end of the holder is made to clamp upon the said shirt-wristband B, and for the purpose is provided with a cam-lever, F, pivoted between the earsH H, and its holding end or edge J operates through an opening, K, formed between the said ears H, and when closed or clamped upon the wristband B has a bearing opposite the inward-turned end, teeth, or edge of the short reverse-bent spring end L, which yields or springs sufficiently to adapt the lever-clamp F J to the varying thicknesses of the wristbands or cuffs to which it may be desirable to temporarily attach the cuff-holder, as shown in Fig. 2.

It will be observed that the cam or clamp end J when closed has a bearing slightly inward, orjust beyond the inward-turned holding teeth or edge formed upon the end of the short spring L, whereby a more firm gripe or hold is obtained upon the wristband without injury to the same.

The pivots are formed upon the edges of the sheet metal lever-clamp or eamholder F J, and are received into suitable holes formed in the ears H H when the same are bent up from the sheet-metal body portion 0, thus forming the cuff-holder from two pieces of sheet metal cut out of the form desired by means of suitable dies, and bent into the form shown, thus forming a cheap, simple, durable and convenient cutf-holder.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- In combination with the flat sheet-metal spring-clamp O D E, having ears H, opening K, and fiat spring -cla,'h1p L,'the pivoted camlever or clamp F J, l being constructed and arranged substantial y in the manner shown and described, as and for the purposes set forth.

EDWIN A. ROBBINS. Witnesses:

SYLvENUs WALKER, W. R. Brsnora. 

